The Denver Post – Joe Vaccarelli
“Courtney Armstrong asked her 44 fourth-grade students about the traits of an owl. After answers rolled in ranging from hunting at night to acute vision and hearing, Armstrong told them that at the end of their weeklong outdoor day camp they would be wise like an owl and learn about the environment. Armstrong is a supervisor for the Eagle’s Nest and Owl’s Roost Environmental Discovery program which, for the past 40 years, has given students in the Jefferson County area an opportunity to spend a week learning outside during the summer. “I just love that kids can get outdoors, experience being outside and really involved with being in nature,” Armstrong said. The ENOR program, as it’s called, was started in 1973 by B.J. Meadows, who was at the time the environmental education director for Jefferson County Public Schools.”(more)